random christmas pics

christmas morning 2009

The kids had a great Christmas morning. They really loved the fact that Santa ate the cookies they helped make and drank the hot chocolate. Santa's reindeer also ate the reindeer food that Kaitlyn's class made.

I am working on getting photos out on Picasa nut I am trying to figure out the app I have for that. Haha!!

Here are a few in the mean time.



Dylan's Hot Wheels stunt set.



Kaitlyn's dress up princess clothes.



Kaitlyn's new cowgirl boots.

randi's turn

As you might recall I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to have a root canal last year right before Thanksgiving.

Well, now Randi has to have one. She has had it rough lately. She started with 2 ear infections with A sinus infection at the same time. So as that was healing up, she started having a tooth give her problems.

So to the dentist she goes tomorrow afternoon to get worked on right before Christmas.

Now, this is where I normally post a photo of who I am talking about. And I have a great one of her sleeping one morning. But as I mentioned earlier, it is almost Christmas and I want Santa to come, so I will be good. Haha...

So instead, here is one of the kids.

kaitlyn is feeling the spirit

Kaitlyn's school is having their spirit week this week. We missed a day or to but we nailed it today!

It was a peice of cake for a guy like me today. It was Nerd Day! Haha... She looked so cute though. Here is her and Dylan before we left the house this morning.

Finished at Penn Square Mall. Man it was a mad house! So now we are at another store behind the mall. Gotta keep going while we have energy!

You know parking is bad at Penn Square Mall when people are hoping curbs and parking on the grass!

Well folks, it is done. That is right, another semester has come and gone. I took my statistics final at 8:00 am this morning.

I feel pretty good about it too, which is a nice change. There were only two problems, but they were insanely long!

So now I just sit back and wait for the next semester, and all the brain drain that it will entail. Haha

a look inside a true trout man

If you get some spare time, you have to check out my buddy's blog. It is the blog of the mighty Harley.

With the weather change, it has around again to the outdoor season. So he has once again picked up his rod, he is making his flies, and trickin' out his trout cycle. This might be one to bookmark as well, because if we get lucky, he will get some photos with his new invention for the season, the Troutcam!

But on a serious note, he went down to Broken Bow last weekend for a serious fishing adventure, and did capture some gorgeous photos down on the river.

So take a look, he is at lattahouse.blogspot.com.

dylan 3-year update

Dylan went to the doctor today for his 3-year checkup, and all is good.

We even found out that he is growing out of the need for the nebulizer! Woo Hoo!! So that was about the best news of all right there. But now we have to start figuring out the allergies. Chances are that he has a lot of the same that I have, judging by how he reacts to some of the weather changes like I do.

And here are his stats as of today:

Height: 31 3/4"
Weight: 34lbs

... and we'll leave the lights on

I actually accomplished something today. I know that sounds terrible, but when it comes to things around the house, I just feel like I never accomplish anything.

But with the help of the kids and Randi today, not to mention my awesome ladder that rocks, oh, and the dog crap I stepped in (loved that, don't have a dog, but thank goodness someone else's pooped in my yard for me to step in!), I managed to get Christmas lights up on the house. We just did the front of the house for now, and might expand that later, but we aren't too in love with the lights we used. So next year we are going to try and find better ones.

But at least we took the first shot at it finally. So now we have the tree up, the outside lights and the stockings. So we are doing pretty good.

randi's cake

I may not be the best husband in the world, heck, most of the time not even an "ok" one. But at least I can say I remembered the cake on the wife's birthday! haha...

From the nuthouse

Heading to Home Depot to buy some outdoor lights to put up around the house. This should be interesting! Haha!

Had my last lecture today in statistics. Final is next Friday. So please tell me why the prof assigned three homework problems due the day of the final!! And to top it off, two of them are topics that aren't even on the final!! I just don't get this guy!

Finishing off some quick Subway, then out into the frigid outdoors to watch the Ada Christmas Parade. I must be crazy!! Just goes to show i will do anything for my beautiful wife!

happy birthday randi

Happy birthday to my beautiful wife! Love you honey!

fun day

Today was a pretty good day (except for the weather!)...

First, a big happy birthday to my nephew Austyn. He turned the big 10 today! Happy Birthday Austyn!

Second, I ended up not having to take a final! woo hoo! My rec leadership class ended up assigning us an extra 100 points of homework. So if we have the points we need to reach the 'A' mark at the original points for the class, then we don't have to take the final! So one down, one to go.

The second final though is my statistics final. I have heard some urban legends on how he designs it, but I am hoping they are not true. The worst one is that his final is one single problem worth 100 points. So if that is the case, it may be very interesting! haha!! But it is the Friday of finals week. Nothing like waiting till last minute! haha...